Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 153-160. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20195359

Special Issue: Cucumber Plant protection Biotechnology Vegetables

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Gene Mining of Resistance to Powdery Mildew Based on BSA-seq and RNA-seq in Cucumber

QIN Lei1, ZHANG Qiaoying2, SUN Lei3, SHI Haoying4, TAN Haibin2, SHI Xueping2,   

  1. 1 School of Science,Hebei University of Technology,Tianjin 300401,China
    2 Science and Technology Innovation Service Center of Hebei,Shijiazhuang 050051,China
    3 Institute of Biotechnology and Food Science,Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Hebei Plant Genetic Engineering Center,Shijiazhuang 050051,China
    4 College of Resources and Enviromental Sciences,Hebei Agricultural University,Baoding 071000,China
  • Received:2024-10-20 Published:2025-04-28

Abstract:

Cucumber powdery mildew is one of the main diseases that adversely impacts cucumber production,posing a significant challenge to its sustainable cultivation.Identifying genes related to cucumber resistance to powdery mildew can help understand the genetic principles and molecular mechanisms of cucumber resistance to powdery mildew,and provide diverse gene resources for disease resistant breeding.This study constructed F1 and F2 populations of QK×QG using cucumber resistant inbred line QK and susceptible inbred line QG as parents.Using the extreme trait mixed pool resequencing (BSA-seq) method,the genomic regions harboring the resistance genes of cucumber powdery mildew were preliminarily located.By integrating transcriptome data with gene annotation information,the association interval of the disease phenotype was narrowed,sequence variations were identified,and key genes were screened.The results showed that the resistance of powdery mildew may be controlled by recessive genes,and the population of F2 showed a continuous normal distribution from resistant to susceptible.The BSA-seq analysis,combining the SNP-Index method and QTG(quantitative trait genomics)-seq method analysis highlighted the 19—21 Mb region of chromosome 5,where there were 77 annotated genes with SNP differences between samples,including 33 non-synonymous mutations.The transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) results showed that there were 309 upregulated genes and 697 downregulated genes in the susceptible material.The expression levels of 13 genes within the candidate segment of chromosome 5 showed significant differences after infection.Through a comprehensive analysis of differentially expressed genes and BSA,the candidate genes in this segment were narrowed to 3,and only SNP mutations were detected in the LOC101207011 gene.The candidate gene LOC101207011 was characterized by a mutation resulting in an amino acid change from Valine at position 656 to Leucine.This gene emerges as the primary focus of our investigation due to its potential role in conferring resistance to powdery mildew.

Key words: Cucumber, BSA-seq, RNA-seq, Powdery mildew, Mapping

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QIN Lei, ZHANG Qiaoying, SUN Lei, SHI Haoying, TAN Haibin, SHI Xueping. Gene Mining of Resistance to Powdery Mildew Based on BSA-seq and RNA-seq in Cucumber[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2025, 40(2): 153-160. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20195359.

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